The country’s telecom law was amended yesterday, to ensure free access, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. In addition to the wired Internet, the new amendment will ensure network neutrality is extended to the mobile network and services such as Skype are allowed to work without interference.

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The new amendment should be welcome news for folks such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who has been lobbying for net neutrality to be enshrined in the law. The European Union, of which Netherlands is a member, however has been a bit meh about these issues so far.

the only thing that was announced is that the Dutch minister for Economic Affairs has informed parliament that he will draft an amendment to the Telecoms law that guarantees net neutrality, it would still need to be ratified by both houses of parliament before it is enacted…